automatically click a button which pops up on webpage

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I want to automate clicking of a button which pops up on a webpage. How can I do it using python? I've zero experience in JavaScript and just started learning prgramming.

Below is the outer HTML of the button:

< button type="button" class="_23b4U" data-crid="16175cf391104e1db0234ea1707ff45c">Accept

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You will not be able to use python for this. You would need to use Javascript as it will run in the browser and when the button pops up, you can target it and action a click event — Stretch0
– Stretch0, Commented Feb 8, 2018 at 14:57
You can automate this with a python package that came from JAvascript pypi.python.org/pypi/pyppeteer These packages were originally written to automate testing of UI functionality, but, you can use them to scrape websites "loading" the page fully and using Cheerio or other libraries to easily find the button you want and "click" it. It's pretty slick. — Josh Lavely
– Josh Lavely, Commented Feb 8, 2018 at 15:00
You can also use Selenium, see stackoverflow.com/questions/8871654/… and pythonspot.com/selenium-click-button — Joe
– Joe, Commented Feb 8, 2018 at 15:02

Natesh bhat · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-30 07:19:45Z

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For automation you definitely might wanna check out

webbot

Its is based on selenium and offers lot more features with very little code like automatically finding elements to perform actions like click , type based on the your parameters.

Here is doc : https://webbot.readthedocs.io/

answered Jun 30, 2018 at 7:19

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Joe · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-08 15:05:14Z

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Take a look at Selenium http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/

from selenium import webdriver
import time

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors')
options.add_argument("--test-type")
options.binary_location = "/usr/bin/chromium"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
driver.get('http://codepad.org')

# click radio button
python_button = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//input[@name='lang' and @value='Python']")[0]
python_button.click()

# type text
text_area = driver.find_element_by_id('textarea')
text_area.send_keys("print('Hello World')")

# click submit button
submit_button = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id="editor"]/table/tbody/tr[3]/td/table/tbody/tr/td/div/table/tbody/tr/td[3]/input')[0]
submit_button.click()

(Code stolen from https://pythonspot.com/selenium-click-button/)

answered Feb 8, 2018 at 15:05

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Khushal Badhan Over a year ago

Hi, thanks for the responce. I tried the programme on the IDLE. The website opens but I'm not able to locate and correcly mention the x-paths. How can I get the correct x-paths?

Joe Over a year ago

You need to look at the HTML file and get it from there. Instead of the x-path there are also other options to locate the element by id or by name. see selenium-python.readthedocs.io/locating-elements.html

Joe Over a year ago

In Firefox you can get the xpath in the web developer tools - right click element - copy - xpath

Khushal Badhan Over a year ago

Yes I used different methods for locating different elements and almost done, but the last button is producing erroe when tried with by 'class method' This is what I tried for by class method: give_access = driver.find_element_by_class_name("_1cPA3") then for by css selector: #root > div > div > div._3Vu4w._3Xzhy > div._2Jdsd > div > div._3wkMv > div > button

give_access = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#root > div > div > div._3Vu4w._3Xzhy > div._2Jdsd > div > div._3wkMv > div > button')

tried this Then for xpath:

Khushal Badhan Over a year ago

Then for xpath: //*[@id="root"]/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/button give_access = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='root']/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/button")[0] But nothing is working. below is the element which I'm trying to locate: give_access = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='root']/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/button")[0]

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